Product Description
Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Authors: S Gravett, H Geyser
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Higher education practitioners, particularly those without a sound background in education as field of study, who wish to develop their teaching and assessment practices. This book is thus mainly written from a practical "how to" perspective.
A wide range of topics related to education is dealt with – from the present legislative framework, through various aspects of teaching and learning to a consideration of assessment practices, curriculum design, web-based learning and the compilation of a teaching portfolio.
Contents:
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Chapter 1. Higher education in South Africa: context, mission and legislation
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Chapter 2. Teaching and learning: establishing communities of inquiry and interpretation
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Chapter 3. Enhancing teaching through an exploration of the biology of learning
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Chapter 4. Cooperative learning
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Chapter 5. The language of learning and teaching in higher education
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Chapter 6. Learning from assessment
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Chapter 7. Quality assurance of assessment in higher education
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Chapter 8. The recognition of prior learning in higher education: new challenges for teaching and learning
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Chapter 9. Programme development: a curriculum design perspective
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Chapter 10. The design and development of a web-based learning environment
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Chapter 11. Teaching portfolios Appendix A: A summary of assessment methods
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